Though Chris Bell's life and career ended far too soon after a car accident days after Christmas of 1978, the Big Star co-founder is getting his due in a series of projects with Omnivore Recordings, the label that's released a veritable treasure trove of Big Star archival material over the years. The first, announced today, is Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star, a 22-track collection gathering Bell's material from the late '60s and early '70s, before recruiting Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel
Pictures At An Exhibition: Cherry Red Revisits Keith Emerson's "Off the Shelf"
Though Keith Emerson died in March 2016, the influential body of work left behind by the keyboardist, arranger and composer lives on. A decade before his untimely passing, Emerson compiled a disc's worth of previously unreleased tracks. He described 2006's Off the Shelf as "a veritable cornucopia of potpourri within an audio montage!" Now, that collection has been reissued by Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint for those fans of the late artist who missed it the first time. Emerson
"Childhood" Found: Classic Marillion Album Expanded and Remixed for July
Prog rock fans and Steven Wilson remix enthusiasts have another date to mark on their calendars: July 21, the release date for a greatly expanded edition of Marillion's classic Misplaced Childhood. Released in June of 1985, Misplaced Childhood became the most successful release in the neo-prog quintet's ongoing career, topping the U.K. charts and staying in those charts for 41 weeks. Featuring semi-autobiographical lyrics from lead singer Fish that touched on love, loss and acceptance
EXCLUSIVE! I Yam What I Yam: Varese Brings Complete "Popeye" with Harry Nilsson Demos To CD
BREAKING! Well, blow me down! Varese Sarabande has just shared the news with The Second Disc that the label will be bringing the soundtrack to composer-lyricist Harry Nilsson and director Robert Altman's loopy film musical version of Popeye to compact disc for the very first time in July - but that's not all. This 2-CD deluxe edition will not only feature all of Nilsson's memorable songs as performed by the perfectly-cast likes of Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, and Paul Dooley, but will also
The Joshua Tree: 30th Anniversary [Various Formats]
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) 2CD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 7LP Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. U2's landmark 1987 album The Joshua Tree gets a multitude of reissues in time for its 30th anniversary. The centerpiece is the 4-CD or 7-LP Super Deluxe version containing: A previously unreleased
Guaranteed to Raise a Smile: The Second Disc Hears The 50th Anniversary "Sgt. Pepper" Remix
NEW YORK (NY) - Could it really be getting better? That was a fair question on the lips of the crowd assembled last Friday, April 28, at New York City's World of McIntosh Townhouse. The Second Disc was privileged to be among those members of the press assembled for a "first listen" to the upcoming 50th anniversary stereo remix of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, due for release on May 26 from Capitol, UMe, and Apple Records. Jeff Jones, the chief executive of Apple Corps,
Masters of Their Craft: Concord Assembles New Reissue Label
Concord Bicycle Music has been an aggressive recent player in catalogue music. The indie giant has succeeded with a variety of jazz, soul and rock titles, controlling such labels as Fantasy, Stax and Wind-Up Records; elsewhere, they've brought the Traveling Wilburys discography back into print and signed a bold deal with R.E.M. to distribute their Warner Bros.-era masters, from 1988 to their final bow in 2011. With all this activity, Concord's latest step was inevitable: they announced last
Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture [Various Formats]
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. At long, long last - a deluxe, expanded Purple Rain arrives in various formats, including a 2-CD iteration with 11 previously unreleased outtakes and a 3-CD/1-DVD version adding a third CD of 15 single edits and remixes and a DVD of 1985's Prince and the Revolution Live! film. All versions, including a standalone LP, utilize the 2015 Paisley Park
Review: Van Morrison, "The Authorized Bang Collection"
The first sound that jumps out at you after inserting Van Morrison's The Authorized Bang Collection is that of the familiar "Brown Eyed Girl," but something about it is different. As presented in its original stereo mix as remastered from the original 1967 first-generation tape, it's more vibrant than ever, with pronounced instrumental separation and a crisp sheen - as if that misty morning fog has been lifted, and the green grass smells fresher than ever. It will have you singing sha la la la
Dearly Beloved: Details on "Purple Rain" Reissue Finally Confirmed
"Hey, look me over / Tell me, do U like what U see?" The patience of Prince fans eager to mourn their fallen hero finally bears some catalogue fruit today, as the long-gestating expanded edition of Purple Rain--the first catalogue reissue of any of the late icon's works--is confirmed. Fans have been intently waiting for a reissue of Purple Rain for at least the past three years, when Prince finally acquired his original masters from Warner Bros. Records and promised to reissue the landmark
Release Round-Up: Week of April 28
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Supremes A' Go-Go: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Here we A' Go-Go! The Supremes' landmark, chart-topping 1966 album (with "You Can't Hurry Love" and "Love is Like An Itching In My Heart" - and that's just for starters!) gets lavishly expanded on two remastered CDs. This release has got it all: mono and stereo mixes of the original album, a whopping 29 bonus tracks (a full 24 of which
Red Dirt Boogie: The Atco Recordings 1970-1972
Native American Jesse Ed Davis was a well-regarded session musician who was a member of Taj Mahal for their first three albums. After leaving the band he performed session work for such artists as Willie Nelson. He drew the attention of Atco and recorded three solo albums there between 1970 and 1972. These albums featured some notable collaborators including Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Gram Parsons and Dr. John among others. Red Dirt Boogie - The Atco Recordings 1970-1972 rounds up 19 of the
Ten Years Strong: The Second Disc's 2017 Record Store Day Must-Haves
Welcome to our annual rundown of Must-Haves for this year's Record Store Day event! Once you're through reading, let us know what you're most looking forward to picking up tomorrow at your favorite local independent retailer! Our list features just a sampling of our favorites from our friends at Legacy Recordings, Varese Sarabande, Rhino Records, Walt Disney Records, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, and many more! Mike's kicking things off... This year's Record Store Day offerings
Release Round-Up: Week of April 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Honeybeat: '60s Groovy Girl-Pop (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Honeybeat: Groovy 60s Girl Pop, curated by Sheila Burgel from the Sony archives and released on Real Gone Music, features 19 songs from nine different labels, nearly a third of which have never been released on CD. While some tracks come from known artists such as Little Eva, Skeeter
Review: The Doors, "The Doors: 50th Anniversary Edition"
Suffice it to say that Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore set the night on fire with their debut album, the 1967 Elektra release of The Doors. That amalgamation of blues, rock, pop, jazz, and pure poetry has recently turned 50 years old, and so it's received its first-ever box set expansion from Rhino as a limited, numbered 3-CD/1-LP hardcover book-style box set including both the original mono and stereo mixes of the original LP (with the mono version appearing on CD
Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Tango in the Night: Deluxe Edition"
The music of Fleetwood Mac could fairly be said to define the 1970s - in all its style, tumult, and excess. Where did that leave the union of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham once a new decade emerged? 1982's Mirage found Fleetwood Mac trying to recapture the magic of 1977's epochal Rumours, and succeeding in large part. Yet Mirage felt as if it firmly had one foot planted in the previous decade. With its belated follow-up, 1987's Tango in the
Higher and Higher: Real Gone's June Slate Features Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson, Doris Day, Larry Coryell, Jesse Ed Davis and More
As we get further into the spring season, we've begun to hear about releases that will be coming out more towards summer. Among these are the new announcements of titles from Real Gone Music due on June 2. As always, they are an eclectic group featuring CDs and vinyl reissues. First up are two titles from Rita Coolidge featuring liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese. 1973's Full Moon was the first duet album Coolidge made with her then-husband Kris Kristofferson. It was the first of
Release Round-Up: Week of April 14
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs - The Music (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino Records offers a 14-track companion CD to Michael Nesmith's memoir Infinite Tuesday - An Autobiographical Riff (due on April 18). This collection has tracks from Nesmith solo as well as The Monkees and The First National Band, charting his singular and often-trailblazing work over the decades. Read more here! The
The Music Never Stopped: Rhino To Issue Grateful Dead's "Long Strange Trip" Soundtrack
A new documentary reflecting on the legacy of the Grateful Dead is on its way to theatres, and a companion soundtrack release promises to complement the long-awaited motion picture. Long Strange Trip: Motion Picture Soundtrack chronicles the band's history via a selection of career-spanning studio and live performances, including previously unreleased tracks. Two versions of the album - a 2-CD set and an expanded Amazon-exclusive 3-CD edition (both also available on digital download and
Official Release Series Discs 5-8
Neil Young's Official Release Series Discs 5-8 continues the packaging of the artist's classic Reprise albums as part of his own personal archival series. (These four albums were collected on vinyl in 2014; Official Release Series Discs 1-4, covering 1968's self-titled album through 1972's Harvest, bowed in 2009 while Official Release Series 8.5-12, spanning The Stills-Young Band's Long May You Run (1976) to 1979's Live Rust, was released to vinyl last year.) This box will feature
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Foreigner marks 40 years of music with a new 2-CD, 40-song collection featuring all 16 of the group's Top 30 hits from different charts, plus various singles, album tracks, one-offs, two new recordings, and more. 40 is also available as a 2-LP vinyl set, with 23 of the tracks from the CD version.
Songs from the Wood: 40th Anniversary Edition - The Country Set
Jethro Tull's 1977 album returns in a new 3CD/2DVD book-style edition, packed with bonus material. Steven Wilson produced new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes heard in this set on CD and DVD, featuring not only the album but bonus tracks too. As per the norm for this series, there's a flat transfer of the original stereo album master on DVD, as well as four of the original quadrophonic mixes, too. Also included in the set is a healthy offering of live material. Two CDs, culled from shows in
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD/DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. The Beatles' seminal 1967 album gets the deluxe treatment in a variety of formats: 1CD: Even if you know the album forwards and backwards-whether from its original release, its 1987 CD debut or its place in The Fab Four's 2009 remastering campaign-this new disc presents Pepper in a whole
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man: Third Man Issues Rare Bob Seger Tracks for Record Store Day
A fantastic feature on NPR recently set classic rock fans' hearts aflutter with a serious deep dive on Bob Seger, whose catalogue is famously absent from much of the digital music space. His classic albums were belatedly issued on iTunes several years ago, don't exist on streaming services, and are even disappearing from record stores (other than, perhaps, 1994's Greatest Hits album, the best-selling catalogue title of the 2000s, or the more recent Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never
Time Fades Away: Neil Young's 'Official Release Series Discs 5-8' Finally Due on CD
Neil Young is heading back to his archive for a new box set--one that puts an in-demand album on CD for the first time after a near 45-year wait. Official Release Series Discs 5-8 continues the packaging of Young's classic Reprise albums as part of his own personal archival series. (These four albums were collected on vinyl in 2014; Official Release Series Discs 1-4, covering 1968's self-titled album through 1972's Harvest, bowed in 2009 while Official Release Series 8.5-12, spanning The
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